Asked by Morgan

Lets say you melted palmitic acid, paraffin, and sucrose. While they be good conductors, poor conductors, or will they not be able to conduct electricity.

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Answered by DrBob222
Neither sucrose nor paraffin in molten form will conduct electricity. Palmitic acid has a pKa of 4.78 which is almost the same as acetic acid so I would expect it to conduct but be a poor conductor typical of a weak acid.
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